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Sunday, 16 November 2014

Monstaville Book II. Chapter 40

40

"Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your
life; define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein.

6
June 2005.

Some people thrive on adrenalin, so
they react to anything or even try to cause trouble. Others do not, so they
have to work more to get into gear and then it is unfamiliar territory. Are you
prepared to go all the way, to actually be physically violent? Can you afford
to do that? What are the consequences? Some people do not think or care about
them. Others need to let off steam behind the scenes rather than confronting
those with aggressive attitudes and who are bent on power. It does not feel
natural. If one is not assertive, but capable of being aggressive and releasing
anger when relaxed then it feels safe and comfortable when there is no danger
of confrontation or defeat with potentially harmful consequences. They become
nervous. But that anger might be displayed indirectly. Direct confrontation
just does make people nervous. It is not the action of it. It is the nerves and
emotions, the anticipation. But, sometimes, one needs to stand up for oneself
or even give people a lot of aggravation in order to avoid future grief.

An aggressor throws the crude power
of their ego at you. But, these types of people often wait until they have
generated power hoping to ‘run you’ with a display of power that will have the
very effect of making you feel nervous. They do it when they’re with their
mates, showing off, deriving energy through a group, or gang. They attack when
they are feeling strong in order to deter you from attacking them when they
feel insecure and vulnerable, which could be most of the time. One action, or
one powerful display or the constant display of same power. They prefer those
whom they know will not or cannot fight back.

People who are unable to control
themselves may seek to control others for fear that their weakness makes them
vulnerable and that others may, likewise, use whatever power they can get their
hands on for their own selfish purposes. Displaying power that others do not
have is opportunism. A person might not always have it but expresses it when it
is there and the effect lasts because people on the receiving end do not
realise that the other is insecure and afraid inside. A bully relies on this
attitude so they can get their own way permanently. The victim is afraid that
he or she will do it again but does not realise they can only behave in such an
overbearing way when they have or feel that power. Naturally, if one is always
giving power away and not seeking help or applying one’s will, even towards
prayer, the bullying might be relentless. If you have no external power you need
to use internal power to counteract it. Otherwise, of course, you will be slain
most unpleasantly.

When you withhold your attention
from someone who is expressing something negative, you are hiding from them and
suppressing your spirit. By rejecting them, you are rejecting your own Self.
When you only give your attention to people partially, you are giving your ego
an opportunity to react. When you give your attention fully, your spirit dances
and expresses its power through love and through joy.

The Third Millennium. Living in the
Posthistoric World by Ken Carey (HarperSanFrancisco, New York, U.S.,
1991).

‘Communicate with your adversaries
and miracles can happen.’

p.78-80. In the fields of thought
that surround this planetary sphere, for those with ears to hear, radiates the
essential wisdom of the wisest of those who have gone before. In these fields
there is a message circulating from the elders of your species tree, a message
intended for your global village of today. If it could be clothes in words,
what the grandparents, the ancestors say, it would be something like this:

‘Do
what we have always dreamed of doing but did not quite achieve. You do not
know, young ones, what we had to work against and how much easier we have made
it for you. We feel as though we have almost done it. Go one step beyond. Do
what we have almost done.

Create
a world where our descendants will not have to struggle and fight as we have
struggled, as we have fought - a cooperative world, a peace-filled world.
Create it first in your hearts and homes...

Do
not throw away your caution. Do not open yourselves to those who would exploit
you or deprive you of your rights. But please, live with less fear than we did.
The rights you enjoy today are here to stay. Armed struggle is not essential to
the procurement of you daily bread. This much we have given you. There are
still those who would take advantage of you, but they are fewer and less
powerful than they were in our time. The communication tools you have today
make it far more difficult for those who would abuse power. Perhaps the most
important lesson our lives have taught us is this:

You
are always better off communicating, with friends, with enemies - it makes no
difference. Be open, honest. State your views as clearly as possible. Do not be
afraid of giving away secrets. It is best to have no secrets; they are the
source of much mistrust. Share with others who you are, your goals, your
ambitions. We have found that on those occasions when we have communicated with
our adversaries, miracles have occurred. Across national borders, across racial
lines, across economic and social barriers, breakthroughs of understanding have
occurred. We came to respect those with whom we spoke and they came to respect
us. These are the friendships that have served us well in our lives.

Agreement
is less important than respect, for with respect agreement may one day occur,
but without it agreement is impossible. Honesty and openness will earn you
respect. The times we fought when we did not need to fight, we lost both the
fight and potential friends. Count everyone a potential friend, then do what
you can to make that friendship real. Communication is a power much greater
than confrontation. Do not lose sight of that.

p.115. Self-righteousness defeats
the purpose it presumes to serve. Those who fight what they despise with
deception only strengthen its hold, sowing the seeds of further deception,
which then have no course but to grow and appear in yet another decade or
generation, presenting yet another opportunity to be seen clearly and resolved.
Resolution on the first occasion requires more deliberation in the short term,
for it forces the deeper issues up into the awareness of those who may prefer
not to see them.Yet it is only the path
to long-term resolution...

The
end justifies the means only in the logic of deceit. Wherever evil is chosen in
any form, it sows everywhere about it the seeds of its opposing evil. In the
end it does not deliver; it consumes.

The
choice of love may not always seem the swiftest path to the resolution of
difference, but it is the only certain one.

p.118. Justice can proceed with
wisdom. Revenge cannot.

Five ways to...keep
a cool head when you’re boiling over.

1.Remember it will finish. Knowing that it is definitely
going to end and you will be happy again makes it easier to deal with.

2.Hunt down the root cause and extinguish it, rather than
fighting the fire.

3.Take time to vent. Speak to someone outside the
situation or a supportive friend, or do something that gives you space to
think.

4.Reflect for a moment, then make a decision and get on
with it. If you take action and make things happen it will stop you worrying.

5.Recall how you coped before with worse. You didn’t know how
you’d solved it then, either.

-
From The Mind Gym (www.themindgym.com). ES Magazine (free with the Evening
Standard), 8 July 2005.

The final entry on this subject in
my journals is an article in The Sun by
John Coles (14 July 2005,
p.31):

“The former child antiques expert
known as ‘Junior Lovejoy’ told yesterday how thugs battered him - because he
swapped sex.

James
Harries regularly appeared on TV as a curly-haired, angel-faced 13-year-old
with show hosts like Terry Wogan and Oprah Winfrey. He amazed viewers with his
knowledge of antiques. But as his TV work dried up, he began to live as a woman
and changed his name to Lauren.

James,
now 27, was at home with his family in Cardiff
when it was raided by a seven-strong gang of louts. His dad Mark and brother
Adam, 29, tried to protect him. But he was felled in the alley beside his house
and battered. James, his face covered in nasty bruises, said: ‘I thought they
were going to kill me. It happened because of who I am.

‘One
of them took off his shoe and hit me on the face about nine times. I was beaten
to a pulp.’

James
and some of his relatives - victims of taunts in the past - were treated in
hospital. Police are investigating and a 17-year-old has been charged with
assault.”

~ Respect the difference! ~

2013 Publicity stunt

"With respect to the ol' transgender community, I didn't have it off with the antiques kid off Wogan. My favourite media lie ever though." - Russell Brand, 4 September 2013

Comment: Love Lauren, but it's just for attention, Russell won't be horrible to her, so it'll go on for years back and forth.

Retrospective
inserts.

I am Me, I am Free by David Icke
(Bridge of Love Publications, Cambridge, U.K., 1996).

p.95. You don’t like your life now?
Ok, what is it about your sense of self, your imagination of yourself, that is
creating it? You don’t deserve to live in poverty or pain. No one does. We are
all of equal worth, value and potential. So why are you creating poverty and
pain? I don’t care who you are, you are an incredible, astonishing aspect of
God. Express that infinity and your life will reflect that. See yourself as
small, insignificant, an ‘ordinary’ man and woman in the street, and you will
be. You can see life as a series of problems or a series of solutions. It’s a
choice and the lives those states of mind create will be very different.

p.98. If we love and respect
ourselves and stop seeing ourselves as victims, that sense of self is broadcast
in our magnetic vibration. That will attract to us people and circumstances
that mirror back that love and respect.

This week I
received so many prayer requests and asked for just as many. There are many of
you who are climbing through circumstances in your life that appear to be
undesirable. As one who has climbed many times in my life I know how much you
want things to change. What I have found though is that the only thing we can
change is ourselves, our perspective and our relationship to the circumstances
in our lives. There are so many gifts that can be gained through your climb.

I rediscovered this wisdom last
week while doing a walking meditation. I was walking amongst the rolling hills
at our health club, covered by the shade of regal Banyan trees I felt enveloped
by the majesty of nature. The summer breeze gently kissed my cheek as I began
my daily conversation with God. On this particular morning I was exhausted and
not feeling physically strong. I asked God why there was struggle in life. In
the quiet of my heart his loving words flowed through me.

Dear child, Fulfilment and
inner peace does not happen because life is perfect. It unfolds moment by
moment as you embrace and appreciate the fullness of your experience. What
causes struggle and blocks you from experiencing complete joy is your desire
for people and things to be different than they are. I know it has been hard
for you, but keep climbing dear one. For in your climb you have received an
abundance of gifts in the past and there are more to come. I celebrate your
strength and I honour your courage as I walk beside you.

As these words reverberated in
my soul, I continued to climb up the hills. My legs ached and I was so tired.
But when I got to the top what I saw took my breath away. The sun glistened
like diamonds on the stillness of the lake, hundreds of tiny butterflies danced
on the dew filled grass and dragonflies graced the air with their presence. I
was in awe of the beauty.

This was my gift. I would not
have been able to see these wonders from the vantage point of the sidewalk. It
was only when I had the courage to keep climbing that I was able to see the
magnificence of the moment. Throughout my life, the gifts that have arisen from
my climb have been extraordinary. It is the contrast of my experiences that
have given birth to my inner strength, my connection to God, a deep
appreciation of life, and a profound level of fully present joy.

Do not be afraid of your climb,
embrace it, be present in it and find the gift in the blessings as well as the
pain. Then allow your emotions to flow with ease. As with everything in life
these emotions will come and go. What remains the same is the inner strength
and peace that lies beneath these feelings. When you allow your emotions to
arise, accept what is before you and ask God to bring only good from it, a new
awareness begins to emerge. It is an understanding that all is unfolding for
your highest good in this present moment.

As you climb you have the
choice to experience it as life enhancing or suffering. If you choose to
enhance your life through it and make peace with the circumstances you are
experiencing undoubtedly something extraordinary will come forth. May you find
the strength, peace and courage to allow the highest good to unfold now and
always. Peace and love to all.

“In terms
of relating to one another; choose love.

Each
being chose their activation point based on their aspirations for this lifetime
and their sense of what would best serve their soul and the collective intent
to ascend. It is essential that you not become distracted by this or other
aspects of conflict, but that you focus your energy and orient your perceptions
to oneness. You are a soul group that functions as receptors for the emerging
codes and directives that carry forth this astonishing transformation and your
role is vital. Play your parts well!

You are mirrors for this light
and love entering the planet; flow and broadcast it with confidence and a
profound sense of your grace and purpose in the whole.

Do not doubt, question,
challenge or negate the path of anyone else. Look only within the mirror
of your own life.

Enter into an ongoing dialogue with that most expansive
and wisest aspect of your being - all that you need lies within you my
beautiful and amazing creatures of light.

Awaken to truth that has always
been: YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU NEED. Your landscape is within you and will
sustain you through all changes you encounter. You are the hero of your own
lifetime and your story, your journey your purpose and mission are of the
utmost importance to you and to All-That-Is. You are essential and your
placement on the planet is essential. Your frequency is part of the light
grid of the planet, which, like the acupuncture meridians in our bodies organises
and flows the energy of the planet! This ascension is a process in which
you are involved!

Participate and orient to this
dynamic story!

Live it with gusto and passion
and total confidence. This is how to be a master.

I AM
forever at your side and in your inner being aligned with all that you desire.
Call upon me for anything. Protection, strength, clarity come from knowing you
are source energy in form. Claim this knowing. Know that you are
profoundly loved.

We
are ONE.”

- Archangel Michael (channelled
through Meredith Murphy, ‘The Holographic Reality of the New Earth is Within
YOU,’ 23 June 2010, www.expectwonderful.com).

“A man doesn't realise how much he can stand until he is put to the
test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than
you think you are.” - Martin Niemoller (www.quotelady.com/subjects/strength.html).

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